2.3% IT Spending Growth in 2009, Says Gartner

Granted, everybody is looking in the rear-view mirror, but Gartner analysts now expect an information technology spending increase of 2.3 percent in 2009, revised down from the original expectation of 5.8 percent, according to  Peter Sondergaard, Gartner SVP. 

“Developed economies, especially the United States and Western Europe, will be the worst affected, but emerging regions will not be immune. Europe will experience negative growth in 2009, the United States and Japan will be flat.”

Give it a quarter, though. October's impact might not yet be so clear.